5th August 2004, 1:00 PM
Quote:That's not true at all, and is actually one of the more racist remarks in this thread, as innocent as it may be. Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Thai, Vietnamese, etc., do not all look identical to each other, generally-speaking. On average you could usually tell apart a group of Chinese people from Japanese, vice versa and the same with all of the other Asian races, the very same way you could (again, on average) tell the difference between a group of French people and a group of Italian people, or Swedes from Russians, Croatians from British, etc. These aren't as great differences as people from say, Africa and Findland, but there are very noticable differences if you've seen enough people from each nationality. Hell, Austria was just right above Yugoslavia but when my mom was a little girl (she's half-Austrian), she would sometimes get teased for looking too Austrian.
I meant mostly Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. And I was making the comment based on a article I read (NY Times Online) several months back about, I believe, Vietnamese immigrants in Japan who had been there for many years, were virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the Japanese population, but were not exactly being accepted as Japanese... Japan is not accepting of immigrants. That's a fact.
Oh, and I'm sure that some of them look similar and others different... maybe in some cases it's like what you said with Italians and French, but I'd think that in some cases it'd be more like Swedes and Danes... :)